Liming Vocational University, founded in 1984, is the first full-time higher vocational college organized by Quanzhou Municipal People's Government. Its predecessor was Liming Senior High School, which was founded in 1929. It has a long history and profound accumulation in running schools. In recent years, the school has seized the opportunity and developed rapidly, and has become a key higher vocational college with moderate scale and guaranteed quality, focusing on applied engineering and foreign trade. The school now has 8 departments and 39 majors, with nearly 8,000 full-time students and 408 full-time teachers. In 2005, he passed the national evaluation of talent training in higher vocational colleges with excellent results; In the same year, it was awarded the honorary title of "National Advanced Unit of Vocational Education" by seven ministries including the Ministry of Education. It is a civilized school in Fujian Province, an advanced unit of social practice activities of "going to the countryside in summer vacation" for college students nationwide, and an advanced collective of employment for college graduates in Fujian Province.

The school is located in Quanzhou, one of the three central cities in the economic zone on the west side of the Taiwan Strait. Quanzhou's total economic output ranks first in the province for 9 consecutive years, and it is the most active and developed area in Fujian Province. There are more than 6.2 million overseas Chinese and 750,000 compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao, accounting for 60% of the province. 44.8% of the Han compatriots in Taiwan Province Province are from Quanzhou, with about 9 million people. Quanzhou has gathered 128000 private enterprises and 1200 Taiwan-funded enterprises, and a large number of overseas Chinese have made great contributions to the social and economic development of Quanzhou's hometown of overseas Chinese for a long time. By the end of 2006, Quanzhou had 72 well-known trademarks in China and 39 famous brand products in China. It had five traditional industries, such as textile, shoes and clothing, building materials, craft products, food and beverage, and machinery manufacturing, and "5+ 1" emerging industries, such as petrochemicals, electronic information, ships, automobiles and accessories, bioengineering and tourism. At present, quanzhou taiwanese investment zone is under planning and construction, and will become the third largest Taiwanese investment gathering area in Chinese mainland after Foshan and Kunshan. After more than 20 years of unremitting efforts, thanks to the good economic and social environment, the school has made great progress.

In recent years, the leading group of the Party and government in the school has been pioneering and innovating, leading the teachers and students of the school to deepen the reform of the talent training mode, which is employment-oriented, quality-oriented and development-oriented. The trained students are "able to get down, use and stay". In recent three years, the employment rate of graduates has reached more than 98%, and they have embarked on a development road with advanced school-running concepts, diverse educational methods and close integration with Industry-University-Research.